I’m house-sitting for the foreign correspondent while he attends the funeral of his beloved father-in-law Toto, the last of the languid Old Etonian gentleman bankers. And he has a pool. And what a pool it is.
The days here are roasting; the sun is now the enemy. Already dead leaves crackle underfoot.
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